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This week's question:

In the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon overthrew them and took the Jews into captivity. The king then ordered some of the royal family and nobles youth who were good looking and showing intelligence and wisdom to be trained in the literature and language of the Chaldeans, which included a young man named Daniel, who was also called Belteshazzer (Daniel 1:1-7). Then the king of Babylon had a troubling dream and requests his magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell him the dream as well as its interpretation as he knows they would only buy time by making up anything for its interpretation. They answer him by saying, "There is not a man on the earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer, or Chaldean. Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it to the king except gods, whose dwelling is not with mortal flesh."
(Daniel 2:10-11)

This infuriated the king and demanded they be destroyed. But the young man named Daniel asks his three friends that they beseech the Lord to reveal the dream and its interpretation so that they not be also destroyed along with the magicians, conjurers and Chaldeans. So the Lord heard their request and revealed the dream to him in a night vision and he told Arioch who was to destroy them that he could interpret the dream to the king. So he was hurriedly brought before the king and he told the king, "As for the mystery about which the king inquired, neither wise men, conjurers, magicians, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king. However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed." (Daniel 2:27-28) The king is so impressed with the dream's interpretation that he appoints Daniel as overseer of all the provinces of Babylon and Daniel appoints his three friends as administrator's of the provinces (Daniel 2:46-49).

That brings us to our question, "Who was thrown into a furnace and lived?". King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold and had a proclamation given, "To you the command is given, O peoples, nations, and men of every language, that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire." (Daniel 3:4-6) After the decree had been given, soon certain Chaldeans came and reported to the king that the Jews were not responding to the worship of the golden image at the sound of music, so to speak, namely the three administrators appointed by Daniel. This infuriates the king, and he has them brought before him to give them a chance to show that they would worship the golden image, but they tell him, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this. If it is so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." (Daniel 3:16-18) "Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face chaged toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshch, and Abed-Nego." (Daniel 3:19-22)

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he responded and said to his high officials, 'Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?' They answered and said to the king, "Certainly, O king.' He answered and said, 'Look! I see four men loosed and walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!' Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace blazing fire; he responded and said, 'Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!' Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire." (Daniel 3:23-26) So there we have the answer to our question, as it was Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego that were thrown into the furnace, and yet they were not even singed!

May we be as faithful in the face of death as these men who stood fast that God would deliver them, and even if He did not deliver them from the fiery furnace and they were to die, they would not bow down in worship to the idol of king Nebuchadnezzar for life (Daniel 3:17-18)!